README for replication files
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ARTICLE: “Congressional Intervention in Agency Adjudication: The Case of Veterans Appeals” 
AUTHORS: Lindsey Gailmard, Daniel E. Ho, and Mark S. Krass
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Replication code, data, and codebooks needed to reproduce results presented in the main text and appendix. 
Files will recreate all figures in study. Note that manual, presentational edits were made to tables and figures.
For inquiries or to report any errors, please contact Gailmard (current email: gailmard@stanford.edu).
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FILE DESCRIPTION: 

VACOLS Data Dictionary.pdf — contains a description of variables in the VACOLS database 
Replication.R — replication code to produce all results in the main text
Match.R - implements the matching procedure 
Appendix.R - replication code to produce Appendix figures  
Appendix.do - replication code to produce Appendix Tables 3-6, 9
"fig3.csv" — data file to reproduce Figure 3
"table1.csv" — data file to reproduce Table 1 and Figures 6-7, 8
"table 2 - fig4.csv" — data file to reproduce Table 2 and Figure 4
"fig5_a.csv" — data file to reproduce Figure 5 (IAVA Scores - 110th Congress)
"fig5_b.csv" — data file to reproduce Figure 5 (IAVA Scores - 111th Congress)
"matched dataset.csv" — data file to reproduce Figures 8-10, 12
"inquiries.csv" - data file to reproduce descriptive analysis in Appendix
"appeals.csv" - data file to reproduce analysis in Appendix A based on the full VACOLS dataset
"ZIP_CD_2010.csv" - HUD-USPS zipcode data (2000 Census)
"ZIP_CD_2012.csv" - HUD-USPS zipcode data (2010 Census)
